Skanda Purana — Nagara Khanda, Shloka 16
न देवी न च गन्धर्वी नासुरी न च पन्नगी । तादृग्रूपा महाभागा यादृशी सा सुमध्यमा
na devī na ca gandharvī nāsurī na ca pannagī | tādṛgrūpā mahābhāgā yādṛśī sā sumadhyamā
Elle n’était ni déesse, ni jeune fille gandharva, ni asurī, ni femme nāga ; et pourtant, cette bienheureuse à la taille fine possédait une beauté qu’aucune d’elles n’égalait.
Sūta
Type: kshetra
Scene: A poetic portrait: Mādhavī standing in a garden pavilion, her beauty contrasted with faint, stylized silhouettes of a devī, gandharvī, asurī, and nāgī in the background—each outshone by her radiance; emphasis on ‘sumadhyamā’ (slender waist).
FAQs
Purāṇas often use exalted comparisons to signal extraordinary destiny and dharmic consequence within a sacred-place narrative.
Not named in this verse; it serves the chapter’s larger kṣetra-centered māhātmya.
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